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| 2021 | OverDrive | Grove Atlantic | English | Checked Out
3 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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| 2021 | Grove Atlantic | English | Checked Out
3 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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"A gorgeous debut" (Lauren Groff) from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all.
A livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood
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One of TIME's 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping's Best Books of the Year
Named one of the most anticipated books of the year by ELLE, Buzzfeed, Esquire, Bitch Media, Good Housekeeping, Electric Literature, Parade and BookRiot
"One of the smartest young writers of her generation."—Book Riot
From
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Grove Atlantic | English | Available Online
14 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 14 |
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2019 | Grove Atlantic | English | Available Online
14 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 14 |
WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East.
In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height
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| 2013 | OverDrive | Bloomsbury Publishing | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 3 |
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| 2013 | Bloomsbury Publishing | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 3 |
Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing) contends with the deaths of five young men dear to her, and the risk of being a black man in the rural South.
"We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the...
| Pub. Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Recorded Books, Inc | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"An unbelievable debut, one that announces a new and necessary American voice." —Tommy Orange, New York Times Book Review
"An excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny." —George Saunders
"Dark and captivating and essential . . . A call to arms and a condemnation . . . Read this book." —Roxane Gay
| Pub. Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HarperAudio | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 4 |
From "one of the greatest writers of our time" (Toni Morrison)—the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God—a collection of remarkable stories, including eight "lost" Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time.
New York Times' Books to Watch for
Buzzfeed's Most Anticipated Books
Newsweek's Most Anticipated Books
Forbes.com's
| Pub. Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2017 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
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| 2017 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
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| 2017 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
"A pinball machine zinging with sharp dialogue, breathtaking plot twists and naughty humor... McBride at his brave and joyous best." —New York Times Book Review
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, and Kill 'Em and Leave, a James...
| Pub. Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 5 |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Simon & Schuster | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 3 |
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| 2019 | Simon & Schuster | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 3 |
One of the best books of the year as selected by The New York Times; The Washington Post; NPR; Time; The New Yorker; O, The Oprah Magazine;...
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| 2003 | 1st Amistad ed. | Amistad | 243 p. ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Library - Adult Fiction Fiction Jones |
| Pub. Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2009 | OverDrive | HarperCollins e-books | English | Available Online
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection |
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| 2009 | HarperCollins e-books | English | Available Online
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection |
"Original and arresting....[Jones's] stories will touch chords of empathy and recognition in all readers."
—Washington Post
"These 14 stories of African-American life...affirm humanity as only good literature can."
—Los Angeles Times
A magnificent collection of short fiction focusing on the lives of African-American men and women in Washington, D.C., Lost in the City is the book that first brought author Edward
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 6 |
In this powerful, provocative, and universally lauded memoir—winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal...
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Availability | |
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| 2009, c1969 | Ballantine Books mass market ed. | Ballantine Books | 289 p. ; 18 cm. | On Shelf
Green Hills - Adult Non-Fiction 818.5409 A584ai 2009 Southeast - Adult Non-Fiction 818.5409 A584ai 2009 Thompson Lane - Adult Non-Fiction 818.5409 A584ai 2009 | |
| 2002 | Random House | 281 p. ; 22 cm. | On Shelf
Green Hills - Adult Non-Fiction 818.5409 A584ai 2002 North - Adult Non-Fiction 818.5409 A584ai 2002 Richland Park - Adult Non-Fiction has 2 818.5409 A584ai 2002 | ||
| 1971, c1969 | Bantam | 246 p. ; 18 cm. | On Shelf
Bordeaux - Adult Non-Fiction 818.5409 A584ai 1971 | ||
| [1970, c1969] | Random House | 281 p. ; 22 cm. | On Shelf
Richland Park - Adult Non-Fiction 818.5409 A584ai 1970 |
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| p1996 | Random House Audiobooks | 3 sound discs (ca. 180 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Bellevue - Adult Audiobook CD AUDIO 818.5409 A584i East - Adult Audiobook CD AUDIO 818.5409 A584i Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook CD AUDIO 818.5409 A584i |
| Pub. Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2011 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
13 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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| Pub. Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2009 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
12 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 12 |
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2009 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
12 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 12 |
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2011], p2011 | Unabridged. | [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC | 1 sound media player (ca. 10 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | On Shelf
Bellevue - Adult Audiobook PLAYAWAY 818.5409 A584i Green Hills - Adult Audiobook PLAYAWAY 818.5409 A584i |
| Pub. Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HarperAudio | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 3 |
2020 Audie Finalist – Short Stories/Collections
In I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying Bassey Ikpi explores her life—as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an artist—through the lens of her mental health and diagnosis of bipolar II and anxiety. Her remarkable memoir in essays implodes our preconceptions of the mind and normalcy as Bassey
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
"Phenomenal" —Justin Torres, author of We the Animals
"Brilliant" —Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun
"A profound exploration of the true meaning of borders." —The New York Times Book Review
NAMED ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2019 in the New York Times by Dwight Garner
A New York Times...
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2010 | Riverhead Books | 232 p. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Library - Adult Fiction Fiction Evans |
| Pub. Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2010 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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| Pub. Date | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2010 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Availability | |
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| 1994 | Pocket Books | 312 p. ; ; 24 cm. | Library Use Only
Special Collections - Muirhead Special Coll. 379.263 B3666w | |
| 1995, c1994 | Washington Square Press | xxiii, 312 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. | Library Use Only
Special Collections - Civil Rights Room Special Coll. 379.2630976 B3666w |
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| p2011 | Unabridged. | Tantor Audio | 10 sound discs (13 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Bordeaux - Adult Audiobook CD AUDIO 379.263 B3666w Hadley Park - Adult Audiobook CD AUDIO 379.263 B3666w |
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| 2011 | OverDrive | Tantor eBooks | English | Available Online
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| 2011 | Tantor eBooks | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection |
Drawn from personal diaries, Warriors Don't Cry is the riveting true story of Melba Beals's experience as one of the first nine black teenagers chosen to integrate the Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957.
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HighBridge | English | Available Online
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Simon & Schuster | English | Checked Out
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*Winner of the Whiting Award*
*Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award and Aspen Words Literary Prize*
*Nominated for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize*
*Finalist for the Kirkus Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize*
Included in Best Books of 2018 Lists from Refinery29, NPR, The Root, HuffPost, Vanity...
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Graywolf Press | English | Available Online
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| 2018 | Graywolf Press | English | Available Online
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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen
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| 2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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| 2020 | OverDrive | Grove Atlantic | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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| 2020 | Grove Atlantic | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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A new collection of short fiction from the Edgar Award-winning author of Devil in a Blue Dress and Trouble is What I Do.
With his extraordinary fiction and gripping television writing, Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to showcase the full range of his remarkable talent. Touching, contemplative, and
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| 2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
6 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
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| 2020 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
11 copies, 33 people are on the wait list.
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| 2020 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
11 copies, 33 people are on the wait list.
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An O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF 2020
FINALIST FOR THE STORY PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE
ONE OF THE NEW YORKER BOOK CRITIC’S FAVORITE FICTION OF THE YEAR
“Sublime short stories of race, grief, and belonging . . . an extraordinary new collection . . .” —The...
